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 Wow! Today is our 2nd birthday (DANCE101) and we're off to celebrate at the Melbourne Docklands.
Its amazing to look back over the last 2 years, even just the last blog and think about how much we have grown and all the wonderful things that have happened.
Its so much fun developing and running our own company. We have a shared vision and passion and it has absolutely unleashed so much energy in us both! We look at what we get done in a day and its incredible! So many things achieved in such short periods of time, our lives are being fastracked and it feels great.
The most beautiful thing about DANCE101 is the people that make it. The teachers, the students the suppliers and everyone that pulls it all together. We are so fortunate in the caliber of people around us. We remember in the early days noticing lovely the people were coming to our classes. We thought it was a co-incidence at first and then it started happening in all locations and with our teachers as well. And then we realised, people get attracted to you for who you are what you represent!
We only want to enrich peoples lives, make them happy, give them access to fun and allow them to progress in ways they dont even think is possible. We never entertain negative gossip, negative drama and people with nasty agendas. Our teachers are all hand picked, so they are nice people as well and have genuine concerns for their students. And we only ever work with people we like! So we have created this wonderful space in which to do our work. Its absolute bliss, every day!
And the funny thing is I cant call it work. Work is a word thats fading from my vocabulary, I rarely use it and I just cant use it when referring to what we do. I find myself saying things like "I've got to teach now, or I'm going into a session, I need to go dance" I just dont see it as work, even the administration part, it's just part of what makes us tick and needs to be done. And so we live in this space where everything is a choice, its a wonderful feeling.
I believe that its one of the key reasons why we have so much energy. When everything is a choice, you are happy to do it and you have a positive energy. When you are doing things you dont really want to, its a push, you have to drag yourself up off the chair, push yourself to wakeup when you dont want to and sit in situations that you really just cant tolerate. We dont do any of that, we have eliminated that negative push from our lives! We dont travel in peak hour traffic, we dont work with negative, nasty and unscrupulous people. We dont tolerate drama queens in our teaching community or people without integrity and we want people there that dont want to be there! Its a wonderful way to live your life!
But it never used to be this way, believe me, our lives are unrecognizable compared to before. We were both miserable, for various reasons. I was stressed to the eyeballs, in a job I didnt like, sick, tired, depressed, overweight. And Paul was wasting his time on fruitless activities, he had become cynical, bitchy and unfulfilled. We work hard at creating our reality, planning it, visualising it, talking about it and most of all making it happen. Its a daily thing. Every hour, every minute we are creating our lives, making them exactly as we want them. We were both under an illusion that life happened to you, we then discovered, we make our own lives. When that went clunk for us both, we started the process of creating an amazing friendship, relationship and life together.
So on the 2nd anniversary of creating our dream, we reflect on what our lives were like (not for too long) and I'm overwhelmed with appreciation and gratitude. Gratitude for the opportunity to live my life the way I wanted, the way I intended. Appreciation for the people around us, people that have assisted our journey, people that make our journey so much fun and people who share the journey with us.
It's and incredible ride, this thing called life and the more I look at it, the more I realise its all the wonderful people around you that make it what it is. So thank you to everyone that has shaped my life to make it what it is today and to everyone that participates in creating the wonderful, blissful and joyful reality that is the world of DANCE101, it is truly a gift and a very very special place.
Thank you
Cheryl Smith
25th January, 2009
| This blog is a personal account of the journey of Paul Zaidman and Cheryl Smith dating back to March 2005 when we first were recruited to sail onboard the QE2 as dancers, performers and teachers.
What started as a 4 month contract turned into almost two years as we progressed to the number 1 cruiseline, Crystal Cruises. This blog was updated regularly with photos and stories. |
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Our First Blog
Nine sleeps till departure
Three sleeps till departure
Hello! From the QE2!
Meet Sharlene and Gino
Carting old folks round
It's official, we rock!
We love you asbestos we can
Eating crepes in the south of France
Naples the mafia city
Welcome to Copenhagen
Passenger feedback
Virus attack for Paul and Cheryl
Sicily and Norway
Virus continues
Sunshine after the storm
Paul and Cheryl Voted No.1 on the QE2
Fabulous Fjords
The Vitality of Cruisers
Greetings from Iceland
Our first day on the Crystal Harmony
Our first time in Alaska
British Columbia
Juneau Alaska
Sitka Alaska
Paul and Cheryl Strike Again!
Funny Paul
Mexican Riviera
Mazatlan
Mexican Hurricane
President Bush on the Crystal Harmony
Happy halloween
The power of dreams
Almost home
Crazy Melbourne Weather
Australian Dancesport Championships
Funny times in Melbourne
Happy Silly Season
Bon Voyage Again!
Our first time in the Caribbean
Greetings from St Lucia
Antigua, West Indies
Moped in St Martin, West Indies
Panama Canal
Devils Island, Brazil |
I danced with BRYAN WATSON! NEW
Photos Mediterranean
Only in Siciliy!
Santorini Greece
Doing the Med properly this time
Internationa Shoppers Nightmare
Life, Death and Sunshine
Family
Cape Horn - roughest oceans in the world!
Cruising down the Amazon
Rio De Janiero, Brazil
Buenos Aires, Argentina
My Famous cousin, the photographer
Six Days off!
HOTPANTS Brigade, Debut Performance
My first steps (student story)
Give Blood, its good for the community
The HUMMER is here!
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